Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

The next moment, his body exploded in mid-air like a lit powder keg! It turned into a shrill, scarlet rain of blood, mixed with broken bones and weapon fragments, which fell to the ground.

The third-ranked Heavenly King Realm cultivator died a gruesome death!
Gu Sheng slowly withdrew his fist, his expression calm, as if he had simply swatted a fly.

Within his mind, he sensed Qin Ling'er's thoughts, filled with deep dissatisfaction and grievance.

"Hmph! Using my spiritual avatar as a scapegoat again! That guy's last strike was so fierce, even damaging the essence of my avatar. It will take a long time to recover! I'm going to sleep in the cauldron for a while longer, so don't wake me unless it's absolutely necessary!"

Gu Sheng replied in his heart.

"A Heavenly King Realm expert's desperate counterattack should not be underestimated. A direct confrontation might be possible, but injury would be inevitable. Using an avatar to block the most fatal blow is the safest option."

"Then promise me you'll find me more nourishing treasures to replenish my soul next time!"

Qin Ling'er persisted relentlessly.

"it is good."

Gu Sheng agreed. Qin Ling'er then snorted, and the fluctuations in her consciousness slowly subsided, clearly indicating that she had returned to the depths of the Nine Dragons Universe Cauldron to "rest."

Gu Sheng raised his eyes and looked into the void on the other side.

There, the battle between Leng Yue and Scarface Lei Gang was also nearing its end.

Leng Yue was the second strongest among the five, second only to the red-haired youth, with a cultivation level of the sixth level of the Heavenly King Realm. Although she had suffered some minor injuries and consumed a lot of energy in the previous siege of Gu Sheng, she still held a steady advantage over Lei Gang, who was somewhat out of control in his rage and had been intimidated by Gu Sheng's previous performance.

At this moment, Lei Gang was covered in blood, his marksmanship was erratic, and he was being relentlessly pushed back by Leng Yue's elusive and chilling sword light. He could only parry, utterly powerless to retaliate. His defeat and death were only a matter of time.

Gu Sheng stood with his hands behind his back, quietly observing this battle of "blood oath," his eyes deep and unfathomable, lost in thought. The night wind rustled his blood-stained blue robe.

In the void, the icy sword light and the thunderous spear shadow clashed fiercely, the aftershocks of energy spreading like a tide. Leng Yue and Lei Gang, these two former companions, were now engaged in a merciless battle for their own survival.

The Cold Moon Sword Technique is chilling and unpredictable, striking from unbelievable angles, each time bringing with it frost-covered sword energy that freezes the void. The Thunderous Spear Technique is violent and fierce, wide and sweeping, with explosive power of thunder, attempting to overcome skill with brute force.

The two were of similar cultivation levels, essentially evenly matched. However, Leng Yue was more determined and calm, and her previous injuries were less severe. Lei Gang, on the other hand, was distracted by Gu Sheng's intimidation, the successive deaths of his companions, and the anger of being "betrayed." Although his marksmanship was fierce, it lacked some discipline.

After hundreds of moves, Lei Gang had dozens of deep, bone-revealing sword wounds on his body, his robes stained with blood, and his breathing gradually became erratic. In contrast, Leng Yue, although her breathing was slightly rapid and she also had several gunshot wounds, her eyes remained cold and sharp, and her sword momentum only increased.

"Lei Gang, give up! You can't win!"

With a swift sword stroke, Leng Yue deflected the incoming spear shadows and shouted coldly.

"Bullshit! Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me, you bitch!"

Lei Gang's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a madman. He completely ignored all advice and instead desperately channeled his inner energy, making his spear movements increasingly violent. It was a fight to the death.

A cold glint flashed in Leng Yue's eyes; she knew she couldn't delay any longer.

She took a deep breath, and the remaining true energy and icy Daoist essence in her body surged wildly into the ice crystal longsword in her hand. Layers of dazzling ice crystals rapidly spread and thickened on the sword, emitting an extreme chill that could freeze one's soul!
"Frozen Blade - Last Breath Slash!"

With a sharp cry, she transformed into a blurry, icy blue afterimage, ignoring the several lightning spear strikes that Lei Gang was unleashing. With an almost instantaneous speed, she closed in on Lei Gang to within three feet of him! The longsword in her hand, which had transformed into a giant ice crystal blade, carrying a terrifying sword intent that could freeze everything and sever all life, slashed down fiercely from above!
This sword strike was both incredibly fast and incredibly cold!

Lei Gang felt a flash of blue light before his eyes, and an icy chill instantly enveloped his entire body, as if even his thoughts were about to freeze! He instinctively wanted to parry with his spear, but his arm moved a beat slower than usual!
"laugh--!"

The icy blue sword light sliced ​​through Lei Gang's neck without any hindrance, as if cutting through a piece of rotten wood!
A head, bearing an expression of shock, anger, resentment, and a hint of bewilderment, shot into the sky! No blood spurted from the severed neck, for all blood and even life force were completely frozen the moment they came into contact with the sword light!

Lei Gang, die!

However, the instant his head flew off, Lei Gang's headless body did not immediately collapse. Instead, a violent, chaotic energy, filled with destructive power, erupted from the dantian of his mutilated body, like a volcano suppressed for millennia!
"Let's die together!!!"

A wave of soul energy, filled with endless resentment and madness, finally emanated from the flying head!
It was a self-destruction! The instant his head was severed, Lei Gang, with his last remaining shred of consciousness and essence, forcibly detonated his dantian and the true energy that had not yet dissipated throughout his body! He wanted to drag Leng Yue, who was so close at hand, down with him!

As soon as Leng Yue succeeded in striking with her sword, she breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel a terrifying sense of impending death, like a cold, venomous snake, instantly seizing her heart!

She stared in horror at the headless corpse, whose abdomen had swelled into an irregular sphere, with a blinding light emanating from beneath its skin. The terrifying energy fluctuations caused the surrounding void to distort and collapse!
At such close range, a Heavenly King Realm expert's reckless self-destruction would be powerful enough to obliterate any cultivator of the same level, and might even severely injure those at a greater distance! Although Leng Yue was slightly stronger than Lei Gang, she absolutely could not withstand such a close-range self-destruction!
"Do not--!"

Leng Yuehua's face paled, and for the first time, true despair appeared in her eyes! She wanted to flee immediately, but the fatal blow she had just delivered had exhausted her energy, causing her to slow down for a moment. And that moment, between life and death, was an insurmountable chasm!

In a flash, she turned her head sharply to look at Gu Sheng, who stood with his hands behind his back in the distance, watching the battle expressionlessly, her eyes filled with pleading and last hope.

"Help me—!!!"

However, Gu Sheng simply stood there quietly, his eyes indifferent, as if he had not seen her plea for help, nor sensed the terrifying energy that was about to erupt.

His previous promise of "pledge of allegiance" seemed to only extend to killing Lei Gang. Whether Leng Yue could survive Lei Gang's self-destruction was not within the scope of his guarantee.

Seeing Gu Sheng remain unmoved, Leng Yue was overwhelmed by despair. But she was, after all, a seasoned Heavenly King Realm expert, and the instinct for survival drove her to make a final struggle!

"puff!"

She endured the excruciating pain and the backlash of her inner energy, then suddenly raised her hand and gripped the Six Harmonies Spear, which was still stuck in the left side of her chest and almost pierced her heart. With all her remaining strength, she pulled it outward with a fierce thrust!
"Sizzle—!"

Blood splattered! The spear tip, covered in bits of flesh and blood, was forcibly pulled out. Leng Yue groaned, her face instantly turning deathly pale, and her aura plummeted! This pull almost aggravated her injuries, but it also bought her a tiny, insignificant chance to escape the core of the self-destruction!

Ignoring the horrific penetrating wound and gushing blood in her chest, she mustered all her remaining true energy and poured it into her legs, transforming into a staggering streak of blood-red light as she frantically retreated away from Lei Gang's mangled body!

Just as her figure had darted less than a hundred feet away—

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Lei Gang's headless, bloated remains exploded with a deafening roar! Like a miniature sun born in the night sky, the blinding white light instantly engulfed everything! Immediately following was a cataclysmic energy shockwave, like billions of thunderbolts exploding simultaneously, like stars collapsing, sweeping wildly in all directions! For hundreds of miles around, the night sky was illuminated as bright as day! Wherever the shockwave passed, the earth was as if turned over by an invisible giant plow, cracking and shattering inch by inch! Towering mountains were easily flattened and crushed like sandcastles! Countless fragments of rock were swept high into the sky, only to be reduced to dust! The entire world seemed to tremble and groan in this self-destruction!
Although Leng Yue managed to escape a distance with her life on the line, she was already severely injured and exhausted, and her speed was far slower than the speed at which the shockwave spread! Almost at the instant the explosion occurred, the terrifying shockwave, like a raging tsunami, slammed hard into her back!
"puff--!!!"

As if struck head-on by an ancient giant elephant, Leng Yue's clothes and large patches of flesh on her back were instantly torn and peeled away, revealing her bare bones! She coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and was thrown out like a rag doll, tracing a shrill, bloody arc in the air!
She could clearly feel that the few remaining meridians in her body were shattering inch by inch under this devastating impact! Her dantian and qi sea were violently shaking, with countless cracks appearing, and her cultivation level was plummeting like a river bursting its banks!

The sixth level of the Heavenly King Realm... the fifth level... the fourth level... In the end, he barely managed to stay at the third level of the Heavenly King Realm, and he was on the verge of collapse, his foundation completely damaged!
"Oh!"

She crashed heavily onto a relatively intact hillside several miles away, tumbling dozens of feet before finally coming to a stop. She was covered in blood, countless bones were broken, her breath was extremely weak, and even moving a finger was incredibly difficult.

But... she survived in the end.

The relief of surviving the ordeal left her almost completely exhausted.

She lay on the cold ground, gasping for breath, each breath accompanied by intense pain and the smell of blood.

She gazed at the epicenter of the explosion, which was gradually subsiding but left behind a scene of utter devastation, and felt a mix of emotions.

Just as she relaxed her guard slightly, a shadow silently enveloped her.

Leng Yue struggled to turn her eyes and saw that calm, expressionless young face that, at that moment, made her heart stop.

Gu Sheng, without her noticing, was already standing in front of her, looking down at her.

"you……"

Leng Yue's voice was hoarse and dry, filled with fear and trembling.

She wanted to bring up their previous agreement and question Gu Sheng about why he didn't save her, but the words that came out were just a weak and humble plea for confirmation.

"You...you said...if he dies...I live..."

Gu Sheng nodded calmly.

"I never break my word. You're still alive, aren't you?"

Leng Yue was stunned for a moment, then a complex mix of emotions welled up inside her. Was it relief? Was it sorrow? Or was it lingering fear? Perhaps all of the above. But she knew she had made the right gamble. At least with Gu Sheng, trust still existed.

This made her feel that her previous "surrender" and "betrayal" were not entirely worthless.

"Thank you so much..."

Leng Yue managed to utter two words, it was unclear whether she was thanking the other party for sparing her life or for keeping their promise.

Gu Sheng did not respond to her thanks, but slowly raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and a point of silver light, refined to the extreme, flickered slightly at the tip of his finger.

"Verbal promises are ultimately unreliable."

Gu Sheng said calmly.

"Just in case, let's leave a mark."

Before he finished speaking, the silver light at his fingertips had already gently touched Leng Yue's smooth brow!
"Om-!"

A cold, solid spiritual force, seemingly forged from the most solid Xuan Iron Divine Crystal, pierced into Leng Yue's already injured and weakened sea of ​​consciousness like the sharpest awl!

This spiritual power was not immense, yet it possessed an irresistible majesty and an indestructible quality. In the deepest part of her consciousness, it rapidly outlined and condensed, transforming into a complex and profound silver mark filled with the meaning of confinement and control!

The moment the brand was formed, Leng Yue felt as if her soul was bound by an invisible shackle. With just a thought from the owner of the brand, it could detonate at any time, shattering her consciousness and scattering her soul!

"This is the 'Soul-Locking Seal.' As long as you have no rebellious intentions and obey its commands, it will have no effect on you. But if you harbor any disloyal thoughts, or try to find someone to break it..."

Gu Sheng withdrew his finger, his tone remaining calm.

"No matter where you flee to, I can take your life with a single thought."

Leng Yue's face was deathly pale, but she felt a little more at ease. Having this mark meant that Gu Sheng didn't intend to kill her for the time being, but rather to use her. For her, being alive and having any use was the greatest fortune.

"Leng Yue...understands. From now on, I am willing to obey your commands and will never have any disloyalty!"

She struggled to get up and bow, but Gu Sheng stopped her with a look.

"ten years."

Gu Sheng spoke up, giving a clear deadline.

"Serve me for ten years, obey my orders without question. After ten years, this seal will be removed, and you will be free."

Ten years... that's not a long time for a Heavenly King Realm cultivator. Feeling somewhat reassured, Leng Yue quickly agreed.

"Yes! Leng Yue obeys!"

After dealing with Leng Yue, Gu Sheng was about to take her away from this troublesome place and return to Wanbao Palace.

Suddenly, his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly, and his gaze abruptly turned to the night sky in the southeast.

There, several streaks of light were tearing through the night sky and rushing towards them with an undisguised, even blatant, attitude! The aura emanating from these streaks of light was powerful and unified, carrying a unique, lofty majesty and oppressive feeling of a sacred land, without any intention of concealment!
Moreover, Gu Sheng keenly sensed that the remnants of the restrictions set up by the first wave of interceptors to block teleportation and prevent escape in the space around him were easily destroyed and erased the moment the attackers arrived, as if being torn to shreds by an even stronger and more domineering force! (End of Chapter)